Sepia

The Homeopathic Remedy Sepia is most widely used by women, though men benefit from is as well. Sepia is derived from the ink given off by cuttlefish.

Sepia can be used to relieve symptoms related premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and reduce the symptoms of menopause. It helps with hot flashes experienced during menopause and for painful or excessively heavy menstruation.

The Homeopathic Remedy Sepia also treats common ailments such as relieving constipation, indigestion, and abdominal tenderness. Other uses of Sepia include treating headaches, nausea, exhaustion and skin conditions such as acne, dandruff and scaly patches of skin.

Sepia is commonly used for:

Gynecological Complaints:

This is perhaps what sepia is best known for within the world of homeopathy.

Sepia works on issues related to the uterus, vagina, or ovaries. It can be used to relieve symptoms related premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and reduce the symptoms of menopause. It helps with hot flashes experienced during menopause and for painful or excessively heavy menstruation. Sepia may also offer help for yeast infections suffered during or after pregnancy, and may even help with painful sexual intercourse.

Exhaustion:

Though everybody suffers from exhaustion at some point in their life, there are very real symptoms that may come about as a result of this. Symptoms that can benefit from the use of sepia include aching back and sides, and even muscle weakness.

Digestive Disorders:

Sepia may offer help for those who have difficulties in digesting certain foods such as dairy products or fatty foods. Related symptoms as a result of this such as gas, tender abdomen, nausea, and dizziness may all be helped with the use of sepia as well.

Headaches:

Sepia may work well for a variety of headaches. It may be particularly helpful for those headaches that are accompanied by nausea or that tend to be quite frequent or intense in nature.

Skin Conditions:

Skin conditions that tend to benefit the most from sepia include and focus around discolored and itchy patches found across the body. A very recognizable skin condition that many people may turn to sepia for help is the common brown chloasma found across the nose and cheeks during pregnancy.

Poor Circulation:

Sepia is used for poor circulation issues such as the development of varicose veins and profuse sweating brought about as a result of this health issue. The hot flashes experienced during menopause may also be assisted with the use of sepia on a regular basis

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Sepia’s Personality Profile:

Those who benefit the most from sepia tend to be almost two different people.

The people that may benefit the most tend to be strong in their opinions and do not like to be contradicted on any count. They do not like sympathy, even when they aren’t well.

They may be quite irritable at home, and yet may be quite extroverted and kind in the company of others. They tend to withdraw if they feel that they are getting undue sympathy as they want to remain normal and happy.

They can be easily transformed and be made much happier when in the company of or doing something that they love.

Head – Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.

Back – Weakness in small of back. Pains extend into back. Coldness between shoulders.

Extremities – Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if too short. Heaviness and bruised feeling. Restleness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel. Coldness of legs and feet.

Skin – Herpes circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.

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